@@mevlanaandradefajardo7863 Capitalism makes a profit exploiting markets. Worker exploitation is actually counter productive to a free market, and the best Companies always fairly pay the workers. The companies who do not fairly pay the workers are committing suicide as those workers will move to the higher paying, better condition jobs available at better companies. If you want to see genuine worker exploitation look at any Socialist, Communist or Fascist economy where most of the workers wages are stolen via a corrupt system that enriches those at the top and impoverishes the workers.
lol what? look that it is literally the basis of capitalism to make as many profits as possible with as little capital as possible. Does paying workers put a company in crisis? It is evident that you have no idea what Amazon is: a company that has made billions of dollars, cutting wages and rights, abolishing unions, repressing, stalking on combative social workers, pissing in bottles: there are tens of thousands of people. workers who have had nervous breakdowns or have fallen into depression after working for Amazon. Ever heard of relocation? Move factories to countries where labor costs less (and where they have fewer rights) to earn more. Come here to Italy and I'll show you dozens of industries that are going to Eastern Europe or Indochina, because the wages here are too high (in reality they are starving). The comparison between socialist and fascist economics is foolish, given that the former is anti-capitalist, while the latter always acts according to capitalist criteria (the term "privatization", at the opposite of the socialist precepts, was born in Nasist Germany of the 1930s).
I grew up in Northeastern Pennsylvania in the very heart of the Northern Anthracite coal field.This song was like an anthem in the coal patch i was raised in.The old guys all worked in the collieries, lived during the great depression, fought in WW2 and the Korean war. They lived this song.Very, very tough men. This song is a timeless classic because it was as real as life itself.
@@danielmarchese9679 Anthracite coal is known as"Hard Coal" because of the tough nature of it. It was first burned successfully in the tavern of a man named Fell in my home town of Wilkes-Barre Pa. He burned it using a grate and from then on anthracite coal was the best in the world. My area was known as "Hard Coal Country" Life was just as hard in my area before my time. There were some of the worst mining disasters in history here.Avondale, the Baltimore mine explosion, The Lattimer massacre. Just to mame a few.
I remember the first time I heard this song when it came on the radio while my mom was driving me to school, when I was maybe 8 or 9. She was the daughter of a union rail worker and belted this out at full volume, regularly slugging me in the arm (I remember her explicitly saying at 1:46 "listen, this is the best part!"), and then spent the rest of the ride explaining about the labor movement in America and what a "company store" was. Just about everything good about me I owe to her determined instruction, I miss her terribly.
I work at a big steelfactory here in germany and from now on this will be my working song 😁 but most of the time i move a lot more than sixteen tons 😄 cheers from Bielefeld 👍
One thing to mention. This song is about the times when majority of working people had no such luxury as becoming "self-employed" and that was a matter of survival, not the personal choice.
I played this at m Fathers funeral as I could remember as a child being bounced on his knee to beat of this song. What was extra special to me was that not one of my 5 sisters or 2 brothers knew the song. He’d whistle it whilst gardening too. I come here when I need them happy memories. Music is amazing at transferring you instantly back to a time or place
"If you see me comin' better step aside. A lotta men didn't & A lotta men died. One fist of iron - the other of steel. If the right one don't get you, then the left one will." - it's 2019 and this is still the hardest line in the game 😂
My father knew Ernie in high school in Bristol, TN. Ernie could not get a job at the only radio station in town and the manager told him ... " get out... you'll never amount to anything; plus you can't sing ".
He can sure sing, but his talking voice is very annoying, at least to me. I have a friend that can barely be understood talking, but sings absolutely beautifully, he sounds a lot like Eric Clapton. Plays bass guitar quite well too.
Back in the 60s my older brother used to go fishing with Ernie Ford on the white river in Carter Arkansas. Ernie was the nicest person you could ever meet.
My brother is a tough guy - that insightful line at the end about one first of iron and the other of steel reminds me of him every time .. brilliant brilliant song ...
@sailormanariel but what does it truly matter their political party, when the original commenter was talking about how the creators used this song within their show. Cant we all just appreciate the song.
I heard this when I was about 3 years old in the 50s. I was obsessed. Loved it. Back then you had to wait until you heard it on the radio. I liked the intro tune...creepy!
The Grand Ole Opry brought me here... 😅 When I was a kid eons ago, Tennessee Ernie Ford was the host of the Grand Ole Opry every Saturday night. This was his biggest hit and he would sing it frequently. As the emcee, he also read the live radio commercials for Martha White cornmeal mix. Goodness gracious, it was pea-pickin good and I'll always remember this even after 50+ years. 😅
When I was little my parents used take me to Dairy Queen in my hometown of Cordele Ga. and every time I play this on the jukebox. Still love it. Miss those days. Mis my mama too. Love you mama.
The diesel thief didn't expected me. Hammered him down until he crawled underneath my trailer and started excusing. He messed with the wrong trucker. Still got scars of his teeths on my knuckles.
I recently found that my voices was bass when I thought I was a baritone. I searched for good songs for my type of voice and I found this one and felt in love with it. Perfect pitch for me, nice sound and good lyrics.
Cool, this is exactly the release from Greatest Hits of the 50s (Capitol Records c. 1971 &ff), immediately followed by Kay Starr's "Wheel of Fortune." I wasn't wild about that follower, but I loved Sixteen Tons so much I totally memorized it as a kid! Thanks for the blast from the past :-)
My friends and I memorized this song way back when it was popular and on the radio all the time. Ernie Ford was one of our heros. It was great to have gown up around his music.
@@ivanzorica8329 Soldier is too patriotic to be a socialist and Heavy lost his family to gulag so which one is a communist? Probably Scout, because he doesn't know shit.
My grandfather started out driving horses in a W. VA. limestone mine, at age 12. Later he became coal miner, eventually owning mine. In soft coal country I was told a man could load 24, or more, tons of coal. The Ford song is likely about hard coal country. and an earlier less mechanized period. A great Song.
I live in an old coal mining town in southwestern Pennsylvania the mine shutdown in the 1940’s but the original miners row houses, lamp house and company store are still here and being used.
I had never heard of him until seeing this comment thread. I looked up his cover just to see how it’d be, and I’m super glad I did! His voice is absolutely epic! And so is his taste in music it seems. This old comment just made me a fan lol.
Indeed a great song! I was four or five years old when I played this on my first record player (78RPM). It was my dad's, and I liked it better than my records. (Which I can't recall a single one of now). The flip side was also a great classic - I Hear You Knocking (But You Can't Come In). I used to sing them all day long. Ahhhh, nostalgia...
Born in İstanbul 1953 (almost B.C. huh?) this was the song my dad most frequently played on our reel to reel when ı was a kid... Such sweet days .... :)))
words of truth are strong man is silent before the truth the worker's song is strong This song will live forever, young people must hear it and sing it
I grew up in Pound VA. That place is about to disappear now. I remember in grade there was 200-300 kids in elementary school. Now building are falling down in on themselves.
@@thatoneguy6929 the Norfork river dam took my grandmaw’s home stead on Laurel Fork, mamaw moved to Big Branch. Still have some family in Pound bottom and South Fork. Those were the days when it was a thriving town. I remember them building new 23 by-passing around Pound. My dad was from Norton.
@@thatoneguy6929 any kin to the Anderson’s on Anderson Branch or Mullins or Boggs? Back in the 60s, I couldn’t throw a rock w/o hitting a relative there
Good song I had forgotten how good Tennesse Ernie Ford sang. The song is a nice one and describes what a poor worker thinks at times. Very good really it makes me think thank GOD I am not a pennypincher.
I heard this song from when I was about 7 years old. I liked the line, " can't no hi toned woman make me walk the line," I have lived that line my whole life. I am 55 years old. Turns out that "Fightin and trouble are my middle name," came to pass also. Couldn't get away from it.
This song reminds me of my great grandfather. He lived in Raleigh County, West Virginia. He spent 30+ years in the coal mine. He had a hand grip that would crush your hand. Miss you Pop.
This song randomly came on the radio when I was just messing around with it and for some reason I just had to listen to it. I lost my grandpa at the beginning of the year and it just seems like this is a song he would listen to so I feel connected to him in a way.
I think i was about 5 or 6 years old when my mother used to play this on one of those old 78 grammaphone records. She had quite a collection of his songs
Escuché esta canción, por primera vez en 1958, por los 4 soles, ... Yyyy la versión de ZZ TOP con Jeff Beck es ahora mí preferida ...! Clásico inmortal ...! 🎉🎉🎉
Not a lot of people realize how many people were employed by the coal mines in early 20th century. My grandfather worked in the mines of southern Illinois at age 14, along with his brother age 17, and his father. Hard work during hard times.
My granddaddy was a coal miner...but his mind was stronger than his body. He moved to Detroit and started his own manufacturing company. Unfortunately his sons were of weak mind and the company failed when he died. I miss my grandpa if he had only lived another 15 years our famil would have a much different place in this world. However, the black lung took him from us. May God bless and keep him.
Great song this is , i work as a truck driver and sometimes when i drive away with a heavy load i put my window open and this song on at high volume always great
I remember seeing him sing this on B&W TV as a young child-My dad who had sung with George Beverly Shea (Billy Graham Ministries) in college thought Ernie was the shit..Come to think of it, so did I.
Is insane how not only people in the same planet but in the same country can be so unfairly apart in living conditions, I listen to this song and I think of people that still live in those conditions today and on the other end there are people like mobile app developers that make 100k a day. Shit’s crazy
This was playing on the radio & on his TV show when we were in Grade School. We'd take turns singing it when the teacher was out of the classroon. All the girls would just shake their heads, thought we were nuts.
This may have been recorded in 1955, but it sounds great in 2020. A genuinely timeless song.
2021 and it's even more relevant. I assume that in 5 years it'll be even worse.
That's what I say! Just change coal mines for whatever that fits and there you go!
Because capitalism never changed It's purpose: making profit exploiting workers.
@@mevlanaandradefajardo7863 Capitalism makes a profit exploiting markets. Worker exploitation is actually counter productive to a free market, and the best Companies always fairly pay the workers. The companies who do not fairly pay the workers are committing suicide as those workers will move to the higher paying, better condition jobs available at better companies. If you want to see genuine worker exploitation look at any Socialist, Communist or Fascist economy where most of the workers wages are stolen via a corrupt system that enriches those at the top and impoverishes the workers.
lol what? look that it is literally the basis of capitalism to make as many profits as possible with as little capital as possible.
Does paying workers put a company in crisis? It is evident that you have no idea what Amazon is: a company that has made billions of dollars, cutting wages and rights, abolishing unions, repressing, stalking on combative social workers, pissing in bottles: there are tens of thousands of people. workers who have had nervous breakdowns or have fallen into depression after working for Amazon.
Ever heard of relocation? Move factories to countries where labor costs less (and where they have fewer rights) to earn more. Come here to Italy and I'll show you dozens of industries that are going to Eastern Europe or Indochina, because the wages here are too high (in reality they are starving).
The comparison between socialist and fascist economics is foolish, given that the former is anti-capitalist, while the latter always acts according to capitalist criteria (the term "privatization", at the opposite of the socialist precepts, was born in Nasist Germany of the 1930s).
I grew up in Northeastern Pennsylvania in the very heart of the Northern Anthracite coal field.This song was like an anthem in the coal patch i was raised in.The old guys all worked in the collieries, lived during the great depression, fought in WW2 and the Korean war. They lived this song.Very, very tough men. This song is a timeless classic because it was as real as life itself.
Wasn't it known as, " Soft Coal?" Finest type in the world? Burns clean, long lasting and hot 🔥.
@@danielmarchese9679 Anthracite coal is known as"Hard Coal" because of the tough nature of it. It was first burned successfully in the tavern of a man named Fell in my home town of Wilkes-Barre Pa. He burned it using a grate and from then on anthracite coal was the best in the world. My area was known as "Hard Coal Country" Life was just as hard in my area before my time. There were some of the worst mining disasters in history here.Avondale, the Baltimore mine explosion, The Lattimer massacre. Just to mame a few.
often the boys didn't live a month working like that.
When I was a kid I thought this was a silly song.
Now, as a man, I appreciate this incredible voice and the story that goes with it.
An interesting but infuriatingly sad part of our country’s history.
@@gordonwoo8127 And, increasingly, the present of the US, as well....
1950:You load 16 tons,what do you get?
2023:You work 16 hours,what do you get
I remember the first time I heard this song when it came on the radio while my mom was driving me to school, when I was maybe 8 or 9. She was the daughter of a union rail worker and belted this out at full volume, regularly slugging me in the arm (I remember her explicitly saying at 1:46 "listen, this is the best part!"), and then spent the rest of the ride explaining about the labor movement in America and what a "company store" was. Just about everything good about me I owe to her determined instruction, I miss her terribly.
Sorry for your loss,
Rip your mother
Hey, she'd be happy about the positive impact she had on you, and that's still around.
May she rest in peace❤️
She sounds like a wonderful person.
I play this song every day I work in the Amazon Fulfilment Centre so that my son can compete in the bike parade.
This is what I think about when thinking about how Amazon is running things.
U work 18 hours, what do u get? Parents sell you to Paris Hilton
They might be Giants has a no no I never go to work song that would go well with this
I work in the oilfield like this song
Jamie Phillips Find the man who left your town to grow weed on a farm and he’ll help you run Bezos out of town
I work at a big steelfactory here in germany and from now on this will be my working song 😁 but most of the time i move a lot more than sixteen tons 😄 cheers from Bielefeld 👍
Bielefeld? Das gibt's doch gar nicht.
Ich hab noch nie von Bielefeld gehört
Bielefeld? Sure and I'm from the Shire
Rheinmetall?:)Grüsse aus der Schweiz...Schmiedewerk
Es gibt keine Bielefeld i heard
My grandfather was a miner in the 70s and 80s in WV I miss him every day
My grandpa used to tell me about the company store. Miss him and all his stories. Love you gramps❤️
I'm sorry that he died 😢.
Amazon is gunning to be the new company store
Tut mir sehr leid
Welcome to the East of Ukraine, folks....
@Vlad Uriniov What do you mean?
His voice is incredible.
This song still sounds great. I quit working in 1975. for the man. I have been self-employed ever since. Life is great!
One thing to mention. This song is about the times when majority of working people had no such luxury as becoming "self-employed" and that was a matter of survival, not the personal choice.
@@FreelancerND That's still the reality.
What a crappy thing to say. You sound like a real jerk.
Great for you 3 years later. Most dont have that option.
I played this at m Fathers funeral as I could remember as a child being bounced on his knee to beat of this song. What was extra special to me was that not one of my 5 sisters or 2 brothers knew the song. He’d whistle it whilst gardening too. I come here when I need them happy memories. Music is amazing at transferring you instantly back to a time or place
"If you see me comin' better step aside. A lotta men didn't & A lotta men died. One fist of iron - the other of steel. If the right one don't get you, then the left one will." - it's 2019 and this is still the hardest line in the game 😂
It's 2021 and this line still win rap battles 💪👑
2022 and is still the sickest line
2023 and it still hasn’t been beat
2024 as good as it gets
I would occasionally play this song when I worked at a borax mine. Hits close to the chest.
My father knew Ernie in high school in Bristol, TN. Ernie could not get a job at the only radio station in town and the manager told him ... " get out... you'll never amount to anything; plus you can't sing ".
Well shit he said fuck you to that guy cause sure as shit he can sign
He can sure sing, but his talking voice is very annoying, at least to me. I have a friend that can barely be understood talking, but sings absolutely beautifully, he sounds a lot like Eric Clapton. Plays bass guitar quite well too.
My grandma worked with Sting in a school once, she told him he'd never have a career in music.
My dad knew jesus in high school and told him he wouldnt be famous...
I'm sorry I thought we were telling fake stories
He got the job at the show
@@libertyprime619 Legit not fake, Sting is from Wallsend, my grandma is from Annitsford, it's not so unbelievable.
Back in the 60s my older brother used to go fishing with Ernie Ford on the white river in Carter Arkansas.
Ernie was the nicest person you could ever meet.
Who gives a fuck huh bud that was his problem to face on judgment day.
Shut the fuck up Matt Howell you asshole wayne was just telling us a sweet fact
My boss hates it when I sing this at work
That's the real face of Capitalism
Well find out why then sing it😆
@@Dk-tt4yc still far better than socialism and communism
love it your so right!
Ahaha
I used to think this was just a neat song when I was a kid. Now that I work a job and support a family, it has a whole different meaning!
Yeah, that breakaway always made me think of a spooky Winnie the Pooh musical break.
I grew up listening to Tennesee Ernie Ford. I Love this song. A timeless classic.
The clarinets on this track sound so clear and open. Beautiful.
16 Tons was a reality back then. Great song that told a true story.
I will disappoint you, but this is reality back now... and always will be... they will just find something new to digg.... somewhere else...
It's still relevant today :/
Lol at “back then.” Might not be coal but working class folks always have it the same. Same same but different.
It is still today. Ruthless capitalism.
Its still a reality.
My brother is a tough guy - that insightful line at the end about one first of iron and the other of steel reminds me of him every time .. brilliant brilliant song ...
I live near Hazard,Ky .I hear this often even today. The last company store that used script to pay miners closed about 15 years ago in Blue Diamond.
I’m from just up the road from you in Breathitt. Have a hard time with the UMW union letting that happen. An outlaw mine?
Song Went to #1 in 1955...then "Rock Around The Clock", then some Elvis fellah..
hahaha
Doug Auzene...😂😂😂
Doug Auzene his name is ELVIS PRESLEY
@@nathancollett5023 Welcome to the joke
@@nathancollett5023 welcome to the joke, what can I get for you?
Southpark brougth me here
Beautiful song
sailormanariel they aren’t associated with any party they just said if they had to pick they’d never be a liberal snowflake
@sailormanariel Triggered snow flake.
@sailormanariel but what does it truly matter their political party, when the original commenter was talking about how the creators used this song within their show. Cant we all just appreciate the song.
What do you get? Your parents sell you to Paris Hilton!
sailormanariel and you are probably a big dumbass Biden supporter. Still shit
God I love his voice and this song fits him perfectly. So does O Holy Night.
David
Allan coe
You made my day Candy. Wish you the best.
I agree. His voice is amazing.
Great singer, I dedicated this to my Dad JohnParsons he liked that song.He passed away in2002,was66.Miss him.
I agree
Sorry for the loss.
I heard this when I was about 3 years old in the 50s. I was obsessed. Loved it. Back then you had to wait until you heard it on the radio. I liked the intro tune...creepy!
I swear Ernie's voice rivals that of Elvis and Frank Sinatra it's so unique.
Ain't shit changed.
The working man toils each and every day
Just to fall short with his not enough wage.
The Grand Ole Opry brought me here... 😅 When I was a kid eons ago, Tennessee Ernie Ford was the host of the Grand Ole Opry every Saturday night. This was his biggest hit and he would sing it frequently. As the emcee, he also read the live radio commercials for Martha White cornmeal mix. Goodness gracious, it was pea-pickin good and I'll always remember this even after 50+ years. 😅
If there's one thing Fallout 76 has me grateful for it's introducing me to this amazing song. The entire series always has had an amazing soundtrack.
When I was little my parents used take me to Dairy Queen in my hometown of Cordele Ga. and every time I play this on the jukebox. Still love it. Miss those days. Mis my mama too. Love you mama.
Worked with the man a number of yrs. A decent guy, he was. And a real talent.
one of the greats of talent
Brilliant song. A friend played it to me on an old 78rpm record years ago. It's always resonated with me. I'm trying to learn it on the guitar now
What a great, true song! Nothing....Nothing has gotten better!
Nothing has really changed!
"If the right one don't get you, the left one will"
I went to the jail for this.
Me to haha. Except my right and left were out to lunch so I used a good old headbutt
The diesel thief didn't expected me. Hammered him down until he crawled underneath my trailer and started excusing. He messed with the wrong trucker. Still got scars of his teeths on my knuckles.
Восхитительная песня и неподражаемое исполнение!!! Нет слов.
Сколько живу-столько слушаю и обожаю эту песню! Браво!👏👏👏
The snap snap snap absolutely makes this video
Песня на века... времена меняются, но жизнь работяг и кредиты вечны :)
I recently found that my voices was bass when I thought I was a baritone. I searched for good songs for my type of voice and I found this one and felt in love with it. Perfect pitch for me, nice sound and good lyrics.
My dad and uncles worked in the mines in Pennsylvania..Everytime I hear I hear this,I think of them. Backbone of America.🇺🇸
Cool, this is exactly the release from Greatest Hits of the 50s (Capitol Records c. 1971 &ff), immediately followed by Kay Starr's "Wheel of Fortune." I wasn't wild about that follower, but I loved Sixteen Tons so much I totally memorized it as a kid! Thanks for the blast from the past :-)
My friends and I memorized this song way back when it was popular and on the radio all the time. Ernie Ford was one of our heros. It was great to have gown up around his music.
One fist of iron,
The other of steel.
If the left one don't getcha
Then the other one will.
Pure poetry
Sounds so much like something a tf2 character would say
Solider most likely
@@ivanzorica8329 Soldier is too patriotic to be a socialist and Heavy lost his family to gulag so which one is a communist? Probably Scout, because he doesn't know shit.
The simpler the better. This song is living proof of that.
PLAIN AND SIMPLE. THATS PURE COUNTRY MUSIC! PURE!
My grandfather started out driving horses in a W. VA. limestone mine, at age 12. Later he became coal miner, eventually owning mine. In soft coal country I was told a man could load 24, or more, tons of coal. The Ford song is likely about hard coal country. and an earlier less mechanized period. A great Song.
I live in an old coal mining town in southwestern Pennsylvania the mine shutdown in the 1940’s but the original miners row houses, lamp house and company store are still here and being used.
What town?
How can anybody dislike this??? Its so so good...
Geoff Castellucci from VoicePlay has a cover of this coming out soon. I can not wait to see what he does with it. I know it'll be great.
And of course you were correct.
His bass voice 😍😍😍 Through him I learned this song existed
@@herbieklein2271 Me too
I had never heard of him until seeing this comment thread. I looked up his cover just to see how it’d be, and I’m super glad I did! His voice is absolutely epic! And so is his taste in music it seems. This old comment just made me a fan lol.
Indeed a great song!
I was four or five years old when I played this on my first record player (78RPM).
It was my dad's, and I liked it better than my records. (Which I can't recall a single one of now). The flip side was also a great classic -
I Hear You Knocking (But You Can't Come In). I used to sing them all day long.
Ahhhh, nostalgia...
A song that's timeless.
My grandfather used to sing this coming down the stairs. I miss him.
I feel your pain
Born in İstanbul 1953 (almost B.C. huh?) this was the song my dad most frequently played on our reel to reel when ı was a kid... Such sweet days .... :)))
Dont you mean Constantinople
Deus vult bois
Nice song, and tells a story some might like to forget.
You mean Constantinople?
Oh that double bass is just superb
I'd say "bless my soul" too if I saw a newborn shovel 16 tons of coal.
Covered for a movie by Eric Burdon. So, I put that, this and the original version in my Animals playlist. Thanks for the upload!
words of truth are strong
man is silent before the truth
the worker's song is strong
This song will live forever, young people must hear it and sing it
Beautiful voice !
Então esse é o famoso dezesseis toneladas
Sim mano
Truly mind blowing... pelo menos pra mim rs
o hino do trabalhador assalariado...
O famoso samba quente da gringa jkkkk
Tem que vir com uma turma da pesada que segure a parada sabe
Reminds me of southwestern region of Virginia. There are so many abandoned towns that once had thousands of people who worked in the coal mines
I grew up in Pound VA. That place is about to disappear now. I remember in grade there was 200-300 kids in elementary school. Now building are falling down in on themselves.
@@billshepherd5090 I grew up a few minutes from Pound
@@thatoneguy6929 the Norfork river dam took my grandmaw’s home stead on Laurel Fork, mamaw moved to Big Branch. Still have some family in Pound bottom and South Fork. Those were the days when it was a thriving town. I remember them building new 23 by-passing around Pound. My dad was from Norton.
@@thatoneguy6929 any kin to the Anderson’s on Anderson Branch or Mullins or Boggs? Back in the 60s, I couldn’t throw a rock w/o hitting a relative there
@@billshepherd5090 Yeah, I am related to several Boggs and Mullins. There are still a lot living here
Hello, I live in Turkey. I'm so happy that I just discovered this song
@George Cullins same here, came from Mad Men
66 years old. amazing what kind of staying power this song has.
This song is ingenious and amazingly sung
Good song I had forgotten how good Tennesse Ernie Ford sang. The song is a nice one and describes what a poor worker thinks at times. Very good really it makes me think thank GOD I am not a pennypincher.
I heard this song from when I was about 7 years old. I liked the line, " can't no hi toned woman make me walk the line," I have lived that line my whole life. I am 55 years old. Turns out that "Fightin and trouble are my middle name," came to pass also. Couldn't get away from it.
This song reminds me of my great grandfather. He lived in Raleigh County, West Virginia. He spent 30+ years in the coal mine. He had a hand grip that would crush your hand. Miss you Pop.
La meilleure version c'est excellent , rythme , diction tout est au top !
I love this song, I heard it also on the Lawrence Welk show way back when.
I grew up to this song, Ernie has a great voice
I remember the Oak Ridge Boys singing this song with Tennessee Ernie Ford one year on the CMA Awards. This song brings back memories
Огромное спасибо шуссу за эту замечательную песню
Шусс плохого не посоветует)
awe
Хожу копать железо только под эту песню
Аве легион!
Аве Легион)
This song randomly came on the radio when I was just messing around with it and for some reason I just had to listen to it. I lost my grandpa at the beginning of the year and it just seems like this is a song he would listen to so I feel connected to him in a way.
I love Lucy. He was cousin Ernie.... lol... lol.. what a voice.
Love this sing
Yep, I do remember that episode on I Love Lucy 😄😅 that is so Cool !
My Daddy played this over & over....telling me that this is how it used to be! Ty Daddy.
I think i was about 5 or 6 years old when my mother used to play this on one of those old 78 grammaphone records. She had quite a collection of his songs
You mean the old 78's? Kids today have no idea.
@@oldgoat50 yes, and those old records were very fragile and broke quite easily unlike the vinyl records which replaced them
Escuché esta canción, por primera vez en 1958, por los 4 soles, ... Yyyy la versión de ZZ TOP con Jeff Beck es ahora mí preferida ...! Clásico inmortal ...! 🎉🎉🎉
Best song I've ever heard
My parents played this on the Victrola, radio & of course, in the car. Hearing this song reminds me of pleasant times with them.
This gives me strength
Not a lot of people realize how many people were employed by the coal mines in early 20th century. My grandfather worked in the mines of southern Illinois at age 14, along with his brother age 17, and his father. Hard work during hard times.
My granddaddy was a coal miner...but his mind was stronger than his body. He moved to Detroit and started his own manufacturing company. Unfortunately his sons were of weak mind and the company failed when he died. I miss my grandpa if he had only lived another 15 years our famil would have a much different place in this world. However, the black lung took him from us. May God bless and keep him.
What a voice, i love this song , i used to sing it at my farm job
That song is more relevant then ever.
J'adore , je viens de retrouver cette chanson que j'ai entendu étant plus jeune, Merci+++
Loved this since I was a kid.
Me too, but I can't remember were do I listened it
A classic A very lovable classic.
One of the best lyrics I've heard in a song!
Great song this is , i work as a truck driver and sometimes when i drive away with a heavy load i put my window open and this song on at high volume always great
This song and Ole Man River, hymns for the working class
I remember seeing him sing this on B&W TV as a young child-My dad who had sung with George Beverly Shea (Billy Graham Ministries) in college thought Ernie was the shit..Come to think of it, so did I.
Love this song, reminds me of my Childhood, yeah the Munsters and all the good stuff that the kids today don´t wanna see!!
Great production quality.
Is insane how not only people in the same planet but in the same country can be so unfairly apart in living conditions, I listen to this song and I think of people that still live in those conditions today and on the other end there are people like mobile app developers that make 100k a day. Shit’s crazy
Why insane? It's just the cruel reality of the world since men became 'civilized'
My grandma worked on the fields and left the rural area alone with 13 years old looking for a life. She made it. She’s a hero ♥️
“Raised by a mama lion… ain’t no high tone woman gonna make me walk the line” what a line 😂😂
This was playing on the radio & on his TV show when we were in Grade School. We'd take turns singing it when the teacher was out of the classroon. All the girls would just shake their heads, thought we were nuts.
I cant sit still and not snap my fingers when I hear this fine tune
Truly a "workers" song. Thanks to uploader